Bolton Wanderers may be struggling in the Premier League but Jack Gaughan who’s been reporting on their progress for The Independent newspaper is on fine form. Jack, a third year third year newspaper journalism student, spent part of his placement on the national daily’s sports desk filing match reports, profiles and backgrounders.

UCLan journalism student Joseph Stashko has won a prestigious Guardian Student Media Award. Joseph, a third year BA Journalism student won Digital Journalist of the Year at the event held in London.

Victoria White talks to students about pitching feature ideas and the future of journalism. Sarah Allen reports
She was the centre of attention. Sitting glamorously with an iPad on her knee, wearing wet-look jeans, a contrasting …

By Richard Grainger
“Show me a city that isn’t bustling and it probably isn’t a city”, says travel writer Rob Crossan, addressing a large audience of UCLan journalism students.
Rob’s link with UCLan is a post-graduate course …

By ALISON WHITFIELD
A group of twenty Sports Journalism students from the University of Central Lancashire headed to Salford for a visit to BBC TV at Media City. The event was organised by the team behind Sports Personality …

Tom Reynolds has had a prolific 30-year-career as an Art Director working for publications such as New Scientist, the Radio Times, the Sunday Express Magazine and the Sunday Times Magazine.  So, when he holds up …

UCLan’s magazine journalists networking at the premium annual awards ceremony for periodicals training were given a pleasant shock by hearing their magazine websites had been nominated for the 2011 New Digital Concept award. They had …

A group of eight students from UCLan’s Sports Journalism course is heading for the Isle of Man to provide live coverage of the Commonwealth Youth Games. They will be working with the island’s leading radio …

Postgraduate magazine journalism student Lauren O’Callaghan is celebrating landing a job before her course finishes. The uclan student has fought off tough competition to secure one of the two places on IPC’s graduate editorial training scheme at its Blue Fin headquarters in London.

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